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Renaissance music flourished in Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. The second major period of Western classical music, the lives of Renaissance composers are much better known than earlier composers, with even letters surviving between composers. Renaissance music saw the introduction of written instrumental music, although vocal works ...
Jeremiah Dencke (1725–1795); Philip Phile (c.1734–1793); James Lyon (1735–1794); Johannes Herbst (1735–1812); Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791); William Selby ...
This is a list of classical music composers by era. With the exception of the overview, the Modernist era has been combined with the Postmodern. Composers with a career spanning across more than one time period are colored in between their two respective eras.
Renaissance composers are those individuals who wrote music in the Renaissance era, between 1400 and 1600. ... Composers of the Tudor period (5 P) V. Venetian School ...
The earliest American classical music consists of part-songs used in religious services during Colonial times. The first music of this type in America were the psalm books, such as the Ainsworth Psalter, brought over from Europe by the settlers of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. [1]
Principal liturgical (church-based) musical forms, which remained in use throughout the Renaissance period, were masses and motets, with some other developments towards the end of the era, especially as composers of sacred music began to adopt secular (non-religious) musical forms (such as the madrigal) for religious use.
Many instruments originated during the Renaissance; others were variations of, or improvements upon, instruments that had existed previously. Some have survived to the present day; others have disappeared, only to be re-created in order to perform music on period instruments.
20th-century American classical composers (3 C, 1,025 P) 21st-century American classical composers (1 C, 594 P) Puerto Rican classical composers (3 P) *